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M. H. PULAS'KI.

EMBROIDERY.

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ATENT rare 0 MORRIS H. PULASKI, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL ANIA.

EMBROIDERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,44r8, dated April 22, 1884.

Application filed August 16, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Monnrs H. IULAsKI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Textile Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates specially to that class of textile fabrics known to the trade as Hamburg edgings that, when finished for use, present a curved, scalloped, undulated, sinuous, or other irregularlyshaped lower edge, which generally consists of aseries of scallops, curves, or ellipses.

Heretofore Hamburg or machine embroideries have been placed on the market in the web, or with strips separated, the edges cut out and carded, or with the edges not cut out, but the strips cut apart and carded, or in boxes, to'suit the different demands of the trade. Such articles in the web, although the simplest and most exposed form, have been up to the present time the leading style, permitting them to be easily handled, readily exhibited and examined, occupying the least space, and when being dis; played being in a convenient form for cutting off any desired quantity. The time occupied by the retailer in cutting off a given quantity is considerable, but in addition to which great labor and time has afterward to be given by the consumer in cutting out the edges, which has to be done before the article is attached to-a garment. By the term cutting out is meant that the surplus fabric is entirely removed from and around the embroidery-edge The reason dealers do not adopt such goods with edges already cut out is that such form destroys the most important features of this class of goods by displaying them in an ob- 0 jectionable and unsightly condition, which in many instances detracts from and depreciates their marketable value in comparison with the goods in the web. My invention contemplates retaining these goods in such a form and condition as, while keeping the strips of embroidery in their most valuable and desirable form in the original web, will admit of the plain fabric being easily and readily removed from around the curves or scallops without the use of scissors or any cutting-instruments. For this purpose my invention provides that the lower (No model.)

embroidered edge shall be scored, perforated, indented, or otherwise weakened close up to and-around the curves or scallops of said embroidery-edge. The plain fabric, according to my invention, is simply weakened close up to and around the scallops or curves (on lines conforming to the contour thereof) of the embroidery-edge without entirely separating the strips, but in such a manner as to enable said plain fabric to be detached along and from said curves or scallops at will by hand without the use of any tool orinstrument, and when so detached the curves and scallops of the embroidery-edge are practically cut out from the cloth, ready for use, in the exact form of the scallops or curves that constitute the finished lower edge of said embroidery-strip and with out leaving any portions of the plain fabric outside of said embroidered edge.

Referring-to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate similar parts on each figure, Figure 1. represents aweb of Hamburg edging, showing three strips of embroidery arranged in parallel lines, illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of part of a similar web, wherein the lines of separation are, for the purpose of plain illustration, shown at an arbitrary distance away from their normal position on such web, and showing the form the edge of the cloth will assume when the fabric is detached from the curved or scalloped embroidery-edge.

A is the plain fabric; B, the embroidered strips, (shown in the drawings with scalloped lower edges.) 6 I) represent scoring, perforations, cuts, or indentations surrounding and following the exact conformation of said seallops as they appear in the drawings, at the lower edge of the embroidery-strips. Such cuts, perforations, indentations, or scoring may pass entirely through the fabric or plain cloth, or only partially through said material, or may simply fracture or weaken the surface thereof.

In Fig. 2, for the purpose of fully illustrating my invention, so that those skilled in the art to which it is allied may perfectly understand it, I have shown the line b at some distance away from the scallops; but this Ihave done simply to illustrate my invention more perfectly, for it must be distinctly understood that such cut or weakened line must in practice be contiguous toffollow the form, and surround the scalloped or curved embroidered edge. As before stated, it is entirely within the scope of my invention, and an equivalent of piercing or cutting entirely through the fabric A, that the surface thereof shall be only scored-that is to say, a line conforming to, close up to, and following round the curves'or scallops ofthe embroidered edge shall be scored upon the surface of said fabric A, cutting or breaking away the body of said fabric only partially on its surface, but admitting of detachment along saidline of curves or scallops and contiguous thereto by application of small force without the use of any instrument or tool. In other words, my invention broadly consists in so fracturing or weakening a web of Hamburgs or the like contiguous to and around the scallops or curves of the edges of embroidery thereon, and following their configuration, that said strips shall be held to the plain fabric of such web by weak connections on a line conforming to the scallops or curves of the edges of each strip of embroidery, said weakened line being easily and readily fractured, and that said strips may be severally detached from said plain fabric by the rupture of said weakened line, and that each of said strips composing such aweb, when so detached, shall be cut out on a line surrounding the curves or scallops of its embroidered edge in a finished condition ready for use.

Having fully and explicitly set forth and described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a web of embroidery having the scalloped or curved edges of the embroidered part weakened, as described, as and for the purpose intended, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a web of embroidery having the edges of each embroidery-strip perforated, scored, indented, or cut contiguous to and around the curves and scallops constituting the lower edge of each embroidered strip of such web, as and for the purpose intended, substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, the within-described separable web of embroidery, indented, scored, or perforated contiguous to and around the curves or scallops of the edge of each strip of embroidery composing such web, whereby each of said strips is readily separable from the main fabric around said scallops of said edges, and when so detached each strip is practically cut out around the curves or scallops of the'edge of the embroidery, substantially as described.

4. A separable web of embroidery consisting of strips of embroidery, the lower edge of each of said strips being a series of scallops, curves, or ellipses, and having surrounding such curves, ellipses, or scallops a weak frangible line, whereby each strip may be detached from the web in a finished condition, with its scallops, curves, or ellipses cut out ready for use, substantially as described.

- MORRIS H. PULASKI.

WVitnesses:

A. S. TAYLOR, S. H. J AOOBSON. 

